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Slovenia, a transit country for migrants and immigrants from its EU and Balkan borders and beyond, boasts its own asylum culture. In the self-declared autonomous culture zone of Metelkova mesto in the capital, Studio Asylum plays with the concept of asylum by encouraging multicultural diversity via the arts. The local authorities, however, are still hesitant to collaborate

Zagreb started to gain visibility on the world map of animation in 1962 when ‘Ersatz’, by the pioneer of Croatian (Yugoslav) animation, Dušan Vukotić, became the first non-American animated film to win an oscar. Today, the slogan 'Z is for Zagreb' stands for the city’s long tradition in animation and the world festival of animated film. Report from Animafest